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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really seems like a cult. Some of the stuff the Mystic families are posting online is so tone deaf, so selfish and literally crazy. I’m glad they finally caved but what they have put these families through is unforgivable. [/quote]

I’m from the south and one thing I will say is people in the south get VERY hung up on tradition, particularly ones that signify social class and standing. A lot of people who want Mystic to reopen so they can send their kids are hung up on the idea of Mystic is a special camp experience for upper class Christian girls in Texas, and now MY upper class Christian girl I always dreamed would go to Mystic can’t go to Mystic! But it’s tradition! [/quote]

I’m a former Mystic camper and I don’t think it should ever reopen.

Also, for all of those bashing Mystic as a MAGA Christian camp, I don’t know when Mystic stared branding itself or being known as a “Christian” camp. In the 80s and 90s, we had optional chapel services on Sunday (I never went nor did most of my cabin mates) but that’s as far as religion went.  We weren’t singing Christian camp songs and religion was not the reason anyone attended.  My best camp friend was Jewish.

All of the families who sent their daughters to Mystic did so because it was tradition.  Religion had nothing to do with it and most of the campers come from blue areas of the state like Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.  Hardly MAGA.  I think one of the Eastland DILs is more hard core Christian and she brought that to the camp more recently and I think most of the parents ignored it or went along with it because they were long-time Mystic families. There are several camps in the state that have a religious focus.  The religious people send their kids to those camps.  No one sends their kids to Mystic for religion.  Also, the brother camp where Mystic families send their boys has no religious affiliation.

I’ve been scratching my head the last year seeing this be about a “Christian” camp. That’s not what it’s ever been known for until the media came in. I would say it’s always been known as a long-standing Texas UC and UMC girls camp, not a Christian camp.[/quote]

Former 90s Waldemar camper here. Agree with this. The Mystic Christian branding was a surprise to me because it was never so for decades. They seem to have been emphasizing that the last 10 years or so especially with the Cypress Lake camp. This was definitely not the draw for the Guad camp families, which were mostly legacy. [/quote]

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